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• Hawaii false alarm: How would UK handle missile threat?

  14-01-2018 23:25 via bbc.co.uk
  What plans are there for alerting the British public in the unlikely event of an attack?
  
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• Carillion in final appeal to lenders after UK refuses rescue - Sky News

  14-01-2018 23:17
  Carillion's directors were making a final rescue appeal to its lending banks on Sunday night after the government refused to rescue the struggling construction and services company, Sky News reported.Emergency talks on Sunday concluded with John Manzoni, the permanent secretary at Britain's Cabinet Office, announcing that Carillion would not receive any special support from taxpayers, Sky said, citing government sources.Carillion declined to comment on the Sky News report.
  
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• Body found in hunt for 'crossbow killer' Anthony Lawrence

  14-01-2018 23:02
  Officers hunting a suspected crossbow killer have found a body in a vehicle in North Yorkshire.It is believed to be that of 56-year-old Anthony Lawrence, who was wanted after a man was killed and his pregnant girlfriend attacked at a house in Southburn, a rural village near Driffield in East Yorkshire.The man killed, 30-year-old Shane Gilmer, lived next door to Lawrence.
  
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• Tui killing: Family 'shattered' as man charged over Cassie Hayes death

  14-01-2018 22:33
  Relatives of a travel agent killed in a Tui shop say their family has been "shattered".Merseyside Police released a statement on behalf of Cassie Hayes' family after the 28-year-old was killed in Southport town centre on Saturday.Andrew Burke, 30, of Vincent Street in St Helens, has been charged with murder and will appear at South Sefton Magistrates' Court in Bootle on Monday.
  
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• Man charged after Merseyside travel agent dies from throat wound

  14-01-2018 22:27
  A travel agent died from a wound to the throat after she was attacked at her workplace in Merseyside, a postmortem has found.Cassie Hayes, 28, died of her injuries in hospital after the incident at the Tui branch in Chapel Street, Southport, where she was assistant manager, on Saturday afternoon.Merseyside police said the postmortem found that the cause of death was shock and haemorrhaging from a wound to the throat.
  
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• Carillion appeals to banks as administration looms

  14-01-2018 22:01
  Directors of Carillion were making a final rescue appeal to its lending banks on Sunday night after the Government refused to rescue the ailing construction group, taking it to the brink of collapse.Sky News has learnt that the company's board was meeting ahead of a last-gasp plea for financial support‎ from its syndicate of lenders, without which its collapse will be confirmed within hours.Carillion's banks were holding talks about the possibility of a rescue on Sunday night.
  
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• Falklands hero surgeon Rick Jolly dies, aged 71

  14-01-2018 20:10
  Survivors from HMS Sir Galahad are hauled ashore at Bluff Cove during the Falklands war.A surgeon who saved the lives of British and Argentinian service personnel during the Falklands war has died.Rick Jolly died over the weekend aged 71 at his home in Torpoint, Cornwall, the Plymouth Herald, BBC and a military website reported.
  
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• UKIP leader 'should quit' over lover's texts about Meghan Markle

  14-01-2018 20:09
  The UKIP leader is facing calls to stand down after his girlfriend was suspended for reportedly making racist remarks about Meghan Markle.Jo Marney was suspended after texts to a friend emerged in which she said Prince Harry's fiancee had a "tiny brain" and would "taint" the Royal Family.Some party members have said her suspension is not enough and that leader Henry Bolton should stand down.
  
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• Tributes paid to Merseyside travel agent after fatal attack

  14-01-2018 20:07
  A travel agent died from a wound to the throat when she was attacked at her workplace in Merseyside, a postmortem has found.Cassie Hayes, 28, died of her injuries in hospital after the incident at the Tui branch in Chapel Street, Southport, where she was assistant manager, on Saturday afternoon.Merseyside police said the postmortem found that the cause of death was shock and haemorrhaging from a wound to the throat.
  
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• Manchester City's long unbeaten run finally ended

  14-01-2018 20:04
  Manchester City have finally been beaten in the Premier League - losing 4-3 in a dramatic game at Liverpool.Pep Guardiola's runaway leaders had not lost in their previous 30 league games - the sixth longest unbeaten run in English top-flight history.Goals from Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Roberto Firmino, Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah gave the hosts a 4-1 lead at Anfield.
  
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• Lady Lucan leaves fortune to housing charity Shelter

  14-01-2018 19:44
  Lady Lucan, whose husband famously vanished more than 40 years ago, has left her fortune to a homeless charity after cutting her children out of her will, Shelter confirmed.Veronica, the Dowager Countess of Lucan, was found dead at home in Westminster in September, after she had been reported missing.
  
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• 'Crossbow killer' manhunt after pregnant woman and partner attacked in home

  14-01-2018 19:40
  Humberside Police have named the victim as 30-year-old Shane Gilmer, who lived in Southburn, a rural village near Driffield.The father-of-three and his pregnant partner Laura Sugden were both found injured at the property after officers were alerted to a disturbance at about 9.20pm on Friday.Mr Gilmer, who worked for East Riding Council, died at Hull Royal Infirmary on Saturday.
  
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• Fears over hospital care and schools as Carillion on brink of collapse

  14-01-2018 19:25
  Ministers are facing calls to guarantee hospital patients will still be fed if service provider Carillion goes bust.Shadow health secretary Jon Ashworth said a promise should be given in the next 24 hours that all those affected by the potential collapse will be protected.Mr Ashworth said the current situation was "very serious indeed" - as ministers met in Whitehall for crunch talks about Carillion's fate.
  
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• Surgeon who signed livers is punished but managers let off | Letters

  14-01-2018 18:46
  Surgeon Simon Bramhall leaves Birmingham crown court, where he was fined £10,000, last Friday.Less than five years since the publication of his report of the Mid Staffordshire NHS foundation trust public inquiry, the words of another QC, Robert Francis, appear to have already been forgotten.
  
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• Readers hope that the tabloid Guardian will catch alight | Brief letters

  14-01-2018 18:46
  President John F Kennedy – what would he have thought about the tabloid Guardian?• There will be understandable excitement at Guardian HQ over the change to tabloid.• We view the reduction in size of the Guardian pages with trepidation.
  
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• Snow forecast for UK as cold weather returns

  14-01-2018 18:44
  Snow is forecast for much of the UK this week as the recent mild winter weather gives way to another cold snap.Northern Ireland, Scotland and northern England will be the worst hit by snow showers, which will follow a band of wet and windy weather on Sunday night and into Monday.Alex Burkill, a meteorologist for the Met Office, said: “From Monday onwards we’re going to see quite a change.
  
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• Owen Smith: stay in customs union to avoid Irish hard border

  14-01-2018 18:38
  Owen Smith said Labour’s position was that the UK had to stay in the single market and customs union, at least for the transitional period.Owen Smith, the shadow Northern Ireland secretary, has waded into the row about Labour’s Brexit stance, warning the return of border posts in Northern Ireland will be unavoidable without the UK “effectively retaining membership of the single market and the customs union”.As he prepared to visit Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic t
  
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• Carillion holds survival talks under close UK government watch

  14-01-2018 18:24
  Carillion held further emergency funding talks on Sunday as the British government said it hoped that the struggling construction and services company's partners will find the cash it needs to stay in business.With thousands of jobs and major infrastructure projects on the line, the chairman of the governing Conservatives said ministers were "keeping a very close eye" on the Carillion negotiations and contingency plans were in place.Brandon Lewis told the BBC that Carillion was still a going con
  
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• 'Crossbow killer' manhunt after attack on pregnant woman and partner

  14-01-2018 18:18
  Police are hunting a suspected crossbow killer after the death of a man following an attack in his home.Humberside Police have named the victim as 30-year-old Shane Gilmer, who lived in Southburn, a rural village near Driffield.The father-of-three and his pregnant partner Laura Sugden were both found injured at the property after officers were alerted to a disturbance at about 9.20pm on Friday.
  
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• Leftwingers set to sweep Labour NEC election in boost for Corbyn

  14-01-2018 18:13
  Momentum’s chair, Jon Lansman, is confident of winning a place on the NEC.Jeremy Corbyn is expected to bolster his dominance of Labour’s key decision-making body on Monday with the election of three leftwing candidates, paving the way for party reforms that may include the re-selection of MPs.The three new positions representing party members on Labour’s national executive committee have been created in response to the surge in Labour membership.
  
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• Tui travel agent victim Cassie Hayes died from throat wound, police say

  14-01-2018 17:58
  A travel agent who was attacked at work died after suffering a throat wound, police say.Cassie Hayes, 28, was attacked as she worked her shift at the Tui branch in Southport town centre on Saturday, with officers from Merseyside Police called to the scene in Chapel Street at 1.25pm.Ms Hayes, who lived in the Southport area, was taken to hospital, where she died from her injuries.
  
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• Snake on a bus: Police remove slippery passenger in Shipley

  14-01-2018 17:50
  A bus driver was forced to stop and call the police after an orange snake was spotted on the back seat by a passenger.Joanne Searle was alerted to the unusual lost item while driving in Shipley, near Bradford, at around midday on Saturday.
  
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• Man Charged With Murder Of TUI Travel Agent Cassie Hayes Attacked At Work

  14-01-2018 17:19
  A fundraiser for the family of a travel agent who died after she was attacked while at work has raised thousands of pounds.
  
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• Man Charged With Murder Of TUI Travel Agent Cassie Hayes After She Was Attacked At Work

  14-01-2018 17:19
  A fundraiser for the family of a travel agent who died after she was attacked while at work has raised thousands of pounds.
  
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• Cassie Hayes Named As TUI Travel Agent Killed In In-Store Attack

  14-01-2018 17:19
  A fundraiser for the family of a travel agent who died after she was attacked while at work has raised thousands of pounds.
  
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• John Worboys' victims hope for reversal of decision to release him

  14-01-2018 16:58
  The Parole Board decided to release the black-cab rapist John Worboys after he had served less than 10 years of his sentence.Victims of the serial sex attacker John Worboys have welcomed a possible reversal of the Parole Board’s decision to release him this month amid growing calls at Westminster for a urgent review of the case.The justice secretary, David Gauke, is seeking legal advice on how to prevent Worboys’ release following a public outcry, Brandon Lewis, the Conservative part
  
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• Police Hunt Suspected Crossbow Killer After Man Murdered And Woman Injured

  14-01-2018 15:51
  A manhunt is under way for a suspected crossbow killer after a man was murdered and a woman was attacked at their home.
  
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• Crossbow Killer Suspect Found Dead In Rural North Yorkshire

  14-01-2018 15:51
  A manhunt is under way for a suspected crossbow killer after a man was murdered and a woman was attacked at their home.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn: US is not UK's most important relationship

  14-01-2018 15:49
  Jeremy Corbyn has put further strain on diplomatic relations with Donald Trump, saying Britain's relationship with the US is not the most important with another country.The Labour leader hit out at "endless offensive remarks" made by the US President, suggesting the decades-old "special relationship" could look very different under a Labour government.The intervention came amid a furious attack from shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry, who called Mr Trump "an asteroid of awfulness".
  
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• Manhunt for 'crossbow killer' after attack in Southburn, East Yorkshire

  14-01-2018 15:01
  Police are hunting a suspected crossbow killer after the death of a man following an attack in his home.Humberside Police have named the victim as 30-year-old Shane Gilmer, who lived in Southburn, a rural village near Driffield.Mr Gilmer and a woman were found injured at the property after officers were alerted to a disturbance at about 9.20pm on Friday.
  
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• The middle-aged men of the press must keep pace with seismic social change, or be left behind | Hugh Muir

  14-01-2018 15:00
  Theresa May’s first cabinet meeting of 2018 following a reshuffle that the Daily Mail described as a ‘massacre of the middle-aged men’.Equality and social justice campaigns have noticeably gone up a gear: think #MeToo, gender, race, mental health, disability.When Theresa May moved to freshen up her cabinet by bringing in more women and minorities, the Mail’s take was: “Massacre of the middle-aged men.” The Times highlighted the “white men booted out in M
  
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• UK government keeping close eye on troubled Carillion

  14-01-2018 13:56
  Britain's government is keeping a close eye on services company Carillion and ministers hope its partners will find the working capital to ensure it remains a going concern, the chairman of the governing Conservatives said on Sunday.Brandon Lewis told the BBC's Andrew Marr show that the government had contingency plans in place for Carillion, a large government supplier that is on the brink of entering administration, according to some news reports.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn faces down critics over EU single market stance

  14-01-2018 13:42
  Jeremy Corbyn has hit out at Labour critics calling for him to back the UK staying in the single market after Brexit.The Labour leader insisted that continuing the trade arrangement was dependent on being in the EU.Is that what we have said to the European Union in opposition?
  
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• UK government's Brexit impact assessment 'shameful' says Sturgeon

  14-01-2018 13:29
  Nicola Sturgeon told the BBC’s Andrew Marr the government ‘hasn’t even bothered’ to properly assess the impact of Brexit.Nicola Sturgeon has described as “shameful” Westminster’s failure to consider the impact of Brexit on the economy, as her own government prepares to publish a “clear-eyed, hard-headed” analysis of potential outcomes of leaving the EU.Interviewed on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show on Sunday morning, Scotland’s first m
  
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• Madeleine McCann Detective Kevin Halligen Found Dead

  14-01-2018 13:25
  A private detective accused of exploiting the hunt for Madeleine McCann to fund his lavish lifestyle has been found dead.
  
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• Corbyn: Labour will vote against EU withdrawal bill this week

  14-01-2018 13:06
  Jeremy Corbyn said he would direct his MPs to vote against the bill when it returns to the Commons.Jeremy Corbyn has said Labour will vote against the EU withdrawal bill at its third reading because of concern about a lack of protection for parliamentary democracy and human rights.The Labour leader confirmed for the first time that his party planned to vote against the bill, but also said he would not heed calls from within his party and from outside to commit the UK to staying inside the Europe
  
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• Trabzon Airport: Plane Skids Off Runway In Northern Turkey

  14-01-2018 12:03
  Shocking images have emerged showing a plane which skidded off the runway and became stuck in mud on the edge of a cliff at a Turkish airport.
  
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• The Queen gives rare personal account of coronation in BBC documentary

  14-01-2018 12:03
  The trials and tribulations of being head of state have been revealed by the Queen in a BBC documentary that features rare comments from the monarch on the perils of wearing the crown and the pain of travelling in a golden carriage.In the hour-long programme The Coronation, to be aired on Sunday, the Queen speaks candidly about the moment she was crowned and jokingly says she cannot look down while wearing the Imperial State Crown, which weighs 2lbs 13oz (1.28kg), as her “neck would break&
  
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• John Worboys Release Prompts Justice Secretary To Consider Judicial Review

  14-01-2018 11:35
  The new Justice Secretary David Gauke has sought advice over a potential judicial review of the Parole Board’s decision to release black-cab rapist John Worboys from prison following a mass public outcry.
  
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• Labour does not support second EU referendum - Corbyn

  14-01-2018 11:31
  LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's main opposition Labour Party is not supporting or calling for a second referendum on EU membership, its leader Jeremy Corbyn said on Sunday.
  
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• UK justice secretary seeks legal advice over John Worboys' release

  14-01-2018 11:22
  The Parole Board decided to release the black-cab rapist John Worboys after he served less than 10 years of his sentence.The justice secretary, David Gauke, is seeking legal advice on how to prevent the release of the serial sex attacker John Worboys following mass public outcry, the Conservative party chairman said.Brandon Lewis said Gauke, who became justice secretary in last week’s cabinet reshuffle, was taking advice on whether to launch a judicial review into the Parole Board’s
  
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• UK government keeping close eye on services company Carillion - Conservative chairman

  14-01-2018 11:15
  Britain's government is keeping a close eye on building and services company Carillion and ministers hope its partners will find the working capital to ensure it remains a "going concern", the chairman of the governing Conservatives said on Sunday.Brandon Lewis told the BBC's Andrew Marr show that the government had all contingency plans in place for Carillion, which is on the brink of entering administration, according to some news reports.
  
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• British woman found dead in 'murder-suicide' in Sydney

  14-01-2018 11:05
  Emergency services were alerted at about 5.30pm on Friday after concerns were raised about their welfare."Police attended and discovered the bodies of a woman, aged in her 20s, and a man, aged in his 30s," New South Wales Police said.
  
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• Ukip Leader's Girlfriend Suspended From Party Over 'Racist' Meghan Markle Remarks

  14-01-2018 10:54
  The girlfriend of Ukip leader Henry Bolton has been suspended from the party after reportedly making racist remarks about Meghan Markle.
  
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• Hawaii ballistic missile false alarm results in panic – and whisky drinking

  14-01-2018 10:42 via theguardian.com
  Witness: ‘Everyone knows you have about 15 minutes until detonation’Hawaii governor explains: ‘An employee pushed the wrong button’Opinion: Nuclear war became more likely this week – and here’s why
  An alert about an incoming ballistic missile sent Hawaii into panic for about 30 minutes on Saturday, until emergency officials announced that the message had been sent in error. Related: Trump asked why 'pretty Korean lady' analyst wasn't in North Korea negotiation
  
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• Australia v England: first one-day international – live!

  14-01-2018 10:42 via theguardian.com
  Updates from the opening one-dayer of the series at the MCGEngland chasing 305 to winThe Joy of Six: Nick Miller on 10th-wicket partnershipsAnd get in touch with Simon on email or tweet @Simon_Burnton 9.42am GMT 30th over: England 189-2 (Roy 114, Root 51) Mitchell Marsh, scorer of precisely half a century a little earlier, does his first bowling. Halfway through the over Finch is shifted deep to the long-on boundary, and Roy immediately drives the ball a couple of meters to his left, the fielder
  
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• What we learned from this year's Brits nominations

  14-01-2018 10:38 via bbc.co.uk
  Liam Payne says he's not bothered about being up against his One Direction mates and Jax Jones says he's going to make the Brits raucous again.
  
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• Our historic Brexit vote could now be reversed, admits Nigel Farage

  14-01-2018 10:32 via theguardian.com
  Remainers ‘are making all the running’ and could swing a vote in parliament, former Ukip leader warnsNigel Farage today makes a dramatic admission that the vote for Brexit could be overturned because Remainers have seized control of the argument over Britain’s future relationship with the EU.The former Ukip leader told the Observer that he was becoming increasingly worried that the Leave camp had stopped fighting their corner, leaving a well-funded and organised Remain operatio
  
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• Porn star Alana Evans says she was invited to Trump's hotel room in 2006

  14-01-2018 10:31 via theguardian.com
  Alana Evans says Stormy Daniels requested Evans join her and TrumpThird adult star Jessica Drake reportedly signed non-disclosure agreementDonald Trump faced new accusations on Saturday regarding the alleged payment of hush money to a pornographic film star.Related: Donald Trump paid porn star $130,000 to stay silent over alleged affair – reportContinue reading...
  
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• Brexit vote may be reversed, says British campaigner Farage

  14-01-2018 10:18
  Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage said on Sunday he was increasingly concerned that a vote for Britain to leave the European Union could be overturned by a powerful group of the bloc's supporters.In an interview with Britain's Observer newspaper, Farage, former head of the eurosceptic UK Independence Party, said awell-organised and funded group of campaigners that wants to remain in the EU was drowning out those who want to leave.
  
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